The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-04-16

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an intellectual doll; "hesd and bust only
no body" at used TO stand on the high
MANTLE weren't they high In that day
'she could 20 occasionally aud look up az
it, Poor thing so unlike wordsworth's
woman.
Not too good,
For human natures daily food"
A doll o. proprieties looking chiefly out
of 1.-The dome-window of the soul upward :"
probably one of the elact. Some children
We know Of would have climbed up on two
chairs and taken it down on the sly to play
with. But children differ. This one in the
military. clerical line, with early developed
conscience, had respect to commandments
in short, brought up that way. Honor
bright Like these other Connecticut chill.
dren, never knowing anything about learn.
ing 10 read, or beginning to be conscientious,
yet for herself we'll remembering the morn
ing when awaking. everything ablaze with
sunshine and all aglow in her room, the
tall, elegant silver. haired grandfather en-
tering with a smile and tossing the silver
dollar into her bed the promised gift for
the purchase of bible so soon as she could
read it. That radiant day, the gift from the
vanished hand, childhood's sweet life and
aiiluence of good, these are remembered
and pictured, too, in that same old book
still on hand. Remembered, also, the
weighty conversations on high themes, fate,
free.will and generalization, insufficient and
valueless good works bered, also, the
crying spell when alone over the enigma
whether ''she was one of the elect" and
though of no account, yet worth Gods saw
himself.
At eleven her mot her died. At sixteen,
the father having died, and she herself be-
ing received into the church, the new
mo ther, noble and beautiful, after year OF
married life, henceforth devotes herself to
the two children, the elder brother and her
self In that devotion she glorifes to them
for ever more, word that to many means
nothing better than "stel- mother When
the brother goes to New Haven to enter col
lege, the home circle goes also, the mothtr
and sister, I. e., Miss Tyler, and strikingly
50, There is for her now an education on
high plane There is a select school, and
On artist teacher, Miss Della Bacon. u wo-
man of disciplined mind, philosophic. his
t)ric, theologic, witty, brilliant keen.
Among her pupils are the noblest born, Of
ighes, place in intellectual, OWL and social
life, from families historic, great learning,
of solid worth chief in purity, purest in
principle, principal in moral excellence and
excellent in noblest virtue. Among these
pupils are two, distinguished seyerally by
the partial love of the aged widow of Presi-
dent Dwight AS "a sweet, pretty creature,
TYLER, from onaqi4ej-t4s young Miss s. +.
from an aged lady was like knights coro-
ne. These girls all were skillfully taken
in hand and taught to think their knowl-
edge was classified avenues to science
we're laid open; style was cultivated
discriminating judgment was formed the
faulty of expression educated. In short
they were taught how TO read and to study.
to bring into order and system their acqui-
sitions and their gifts Their associations
a -, ~ hnmnQ
families resident there, was an education.
Indeed, New Haven ut that time Was itself
school, and its atmosphere an inspiration.
Self appreciation of these particulars was
once slightly caricatured by an outsider
in story Of II clergyman attempting to
console and cheer sister Of uncertain age,
lust on the border land and near the eternal
sunshine, by suggestion Of the varied
gories and companionships Of heaven, to
whom in feeble voice she replied: 'Aes,
know, but fear shall miss New Haven
privileges" Like others, the most Of US,
perhaps, hoping to go to heaven, yet by no
means IN hurry 10 90
BE that as it may, the brother was gradu'
atrI IN 1871 and the sister welded at Har-
risburs in ls4y, took the memories and ben
LECTION of home and of school companion
ships, and of courtly, cultured men anu
graceful women to Ottawa, place with pos
sbilites, but for the time then present,
somewhat in contrast with those cities Of
the east.
Personal,
Iowa. The Rev. c. NJ. Bunk and wife, Of